Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics #: Plato: Menexenus

Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics #: Plato: Menexenus
David Sansone
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Plato challenges his readers by depicting an elderly Socrates as an enthusiastic student of rhetoric who has learned from his teacher Aspasia to recite an inspiring funeral oration, an oration that conspicuously refers to events occurring after the deaths of Socrates and Aspasia, an oration that Aspasia, as a woman and a non-Athenian, was not eligible to deliver over the Athenians who died in war. This commentary, the first in English in over 100 years, assists the modern reader in confronting Plato' s challenge. The Introduction sets the dialogue in the context of the traditional Athenian funeral oration and of Plato' s ongoing critique of contemporary rhetoric. The Commentary, which is well suited to the needs and interests of intermediate students of Classical Greek, provides guidance on grammatical and historical matters, while allowing the student to appreciate Plato' s mastery of Greek prose style and critique of democratic ideology.

A Hellenistic Anthology
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Cicero: Pro Marco Caelio
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Euripides: Cyclops
Euripides: Hecuba
Herodotus: Histories Book I
Homer: Iliad Book 22
Homer: Iliad Book I
Horace: Odes Book I
Horace: Satires Book I
Plato: Menexenus
Plautus: Pseudolus
Sophocles: Philoctetes (Play)
Theophrastus: Characters
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VI
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VII
Virgil: Aeneid Book XI
Virgil: Aeneid Book XII

David Sansone is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In a career of over forty years he has taught a great variety of courses, and these have often inspired his publications, including Ancient Greek Civilization (3rd ed. 2017) and Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport (1988). The main focus of his research, however, has been on Greek language and literature, especially Attic tragedy and its influence on the development of Greek prose; his book Greek Drama and the Invention of Rhetoric (2012) argues for the decisive effect Greek tragedy had on the creation of a formal art of rhetoric in fifth-century Greece.
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ISBN-13: 9781108499408
Published: 13 Aug 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 142mm
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 340g
Pages: 202

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